There are hundreds of Internet video formats, but fortunately for you, you can ignore most of them. It’s all too easy to get tangled up in the seemingly endless number of video formats on the Web.

YouTube supports the following video formats for upload: 3GPP, AVI, FLV, MOV, MPEG4, MPEGPS, WebM and WMV. MPEG4 commonly uses the .mp4 file extension.

The fight for dominant video/audio format -- reminiscent of the old Betamax/VHS conflict -- turns nasty as HTML5 gains traction When I last talked about the Battle of the Video Format Titans ...

The native video support in HTML5, which includes MP4, WebM and Ogg. See H.264, WebM, Ogg Theora, Ogg Vorbis and HTML5.. HTML5 VIDEO FORMATS Video Audio Format Codec Codec MP4 H.264 AAC WebM VP8 ...

Currently, there are two competing formats being used for video embedded using HTML5: H.264 (backed by Apple and other companies) and Ogg Theora (backed by Mozilla). Safari, Chrome, and other ...

One big limitation with Freemake Video Converter is that it only supports the most popular video formats: AVI, MP4, WMV and 3GP for standalone video, burning to DVD format, ripping the audio into ...

Seeing as HTML5 is not just in browsers but smart TVs and other streaming boxes too, this news has been a long time coming. Which makes us wonder how long Flash has left before it's gone altogether.

Video search engine MeFeedia, for instance, says that 54 percent of Web video is now compatible with HTML5. That's more than double the tally the company had back in May--less than six months ago.

To translate digital video, software uses codecs, or compression- decompression, to tell a video file how to store its information. Each file format usually supports several different codecs, like ...